The Mordecai Puryear House is a

center-hall house The central-passage house, also known variously as central hall plan house, center-hall house, hall-passage-parlor house, Williamsburg cottage, and Tidewater-type cottage, was a vernacular, or folk form, house type from the colonial period onward ...

in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, built around 1830. Mordecai Puryear was one of the ten original investors in the National Bank of Franklin in 1871. The bank "was one of the primary financial institutions of the county" until it failed in 1926. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. At the time of listing it included two

contributing buildings In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...

on an area of . The house has been included in a tour of historic Franklin houses. The house was built circa 1830 and was expanded twice, around 1850 and in 1907.

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